Kathmandu, September 21, 2016: The Nepal Police’s Metropolitan Police Office on Tuesday evening paraded two persons who were allegedly involved in planting and explosion of bombs in several schools in Kathmandu.
Police identified the suspects as Shankar Lakhe (31)of Ramechhap and Chandra Bahadur Tamang (24) of Sindhuli.
AIGP Pratap Singh Thapa said the duo were affiliated with the Maobadi Communist Kendra Nepal (Maoist Communist Centre Nepal), which was formed by former Maoist rebels who had fled along with arms.
The armed outfit had officially surrendered its arms two years ago to the government’s talks team led by Ananda Prasad Dhugana. The duo, however, resorted to intimidating operators of private schools and colleges in the Kathmandu Valley in their bid to extort money from, according to AIGP Thapa.
Shankar Lakhe was among eight persons who were held on charge of arson attack on a school van in Dallu on July 1.
He was presented before the Kathmandu District Court and released on a general date, police informed.
Police have confiscated some documents of the least heard of Maoist outfit from their possession.
Earlier police had said they arrested three persons in connection with the explosions in two schools and discovery of explosives in five others.
- Shankar Lakhe and Chandra Bahadur Tamang being paraded at the Metropolitan Police Office in Ranipokhari. Photo: MPO/Nepal Police
- Pamphlets and letterheads seized from the possession of the suspects who allegedly planted bombs at school. Photo: MPO/Nepal Police
- A Nepali bomb squad member inspects a pressure cooker bomb after detonating it at the school in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Photo: AP
- Nepali bomb squad members get ready to dispose a pressure cooker bomb which was kept inside school in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Photo: AP
- A Nepai woman stands next to a school wall that was damaged by a bomb explosion in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Photo: AP
- Crowds watch members of the bomb squad dispose a pressure cooker bomb in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Photo: AP
- Nepali bomb squad members inspect a pressure cooker bomb before they detonated it at at a school in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Police in Nepal say small bombs have exploded outside two schools in the capital, but no injuries and only minor damage were reported. Unexploded bombs were found at five other schools in the city. Photo: AP
- A bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army preparing to defuse a bomb at Chappal Karkhana on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Photo Courtesy: @MeDyamm/Twitter
Police claimed the duo intended to extort money from the schools through bomb terror.
According to AIGP Thapa, they planted explosives in some schools while at other places they left papers disguised as bombs to terrorise people.
